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This week’s short horror story, Roses, inspired by the prompt "Theatre", is written by Abi Kinsella and read by Anusia Battersby

Content Notes:

- ghosts

- death

Directed and Produced by April Sumner

Written by Abi Kinsella

Executive Producers Alexander J Newall & April Sumner

Featuring

Anusia Battersby as Narrator

Edited by Nico Vettese

Music by Nico Vettese and Sam Jones

Mastering by Catherine Rinella

Art by April Sumner

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Today, we are sharing an exciting episode from one of the podcasts on the RQ Network, Gals & Goblins

Gals and Goblins is an actual play TTRPG Podcast that loosely follows the rules of Dungeons and Dragons and strictly follows the Rule of Cool.

In this first episode titled "All Aboard the Owl Cat Bus”, join the gals: Sawyer Cinderfoot Morroghan Starr, Esta of House Ruadon and Beans as they embark on their first adventure together on their way to Frogmont Adventuring Academy for Young Women! Will they make it to Lorelai Village? What will they encounter on their first bit of adventure in the magical realm of Eldrivale?

They don’t know exactly what the future holds but we can assure you there will be shenanigans and friendship galore. 

Introduction and outro by Lowri Ann Davies. 

You can listen to the next exciting episode of Gals & Goblins by clicking on this link, or by searching for Gals & Goblins wherever you find podcasts, or on the Rusty Quill website

Cast:

Hosted by:

Campbell Duffy

Lilly Percifield

Olivia Rose McCain

Jared VosWinkel

Cover art by Heather Vaughan

Content Warnings: Threat and descriptions of physical violence and death. 

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This week’s short horror story, The Tooth Fairy's Tale, inspired by the prompt "Forensics", is written by Ben Folk and read by Billie Hindle

Content Notes:

• Graphic Description of: immolation/fire, teeth, autopsy
• memory loss

Directed and Produced by April Sumner

Written by Ben Folk

Executive Producers Alexander J Newall & April Sumner

Featuring Billie Hindle as Narrator

Edited by Lowri Ann Davies and Nico Vettese

Music by Nico Vettese and Sam Jones

Mastering by Catherine Rinella

Art by April Sumner

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We are featuring a feed drop from a brilliant show on the RQ Network: Cold Tapes. Created by the talented J Strautman and B Marsollier. 

Cold Tapes is an award winning murder mystery Audio Drama inspired by true crime. ,

In this first episode called “Operation Antelope” The brutal murder of Andrew Fairfield on a remote Antarctic base thrusts DCI Tessa McCallister into the claustrophobic lives of an isolated community of international scientists and crew.

Through police interviews, covert recordings, and audio diaries, Tessa hears hidden agendas, concealed criminal histories, violent psychosis, and dangerous conspiracy theories that help her uncover the truth behind the murder.

With the murderer still on the base it’s a race against time to untangle the maze of deception, revealing chilling truths buried beneath the ice.

16 Suspects. 1 Murderer. Can you solve it?

Introduction and outro by Shahan Hamza. Listen to Cold Tapes on The Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or wherever you get your podcasts, or learn more about Cold Tapes on its official website.  

Credits: 

A Free Turn production.

Written by Alexis Zegerman and Jonathan Myerson

Developed and Story Produced by Chris Croucher and Emma Lamont

Directed and Produced by Sian Williams

Associate Producer: Thisbe Barnett

Executive Producers: Jon Hamm, Gemma Batterby, Ron Downey, Emma Lamont, Chris Croucher and Robbie Ashcroft

Content warnings:

Mentions of Death, Medication, Isolation, and Mental Health.  

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This week’s short horror story, Well Fed, inspired by the prompt "Waste", is written by Luka Suk and read by Imogen Harris

Content Notes:

- Description of food/eating

Directed and Produced by April Sumner

Written by Luka Suk

Executive Producers Alexander J Newall & April Sumner

Featuring

Imogen Harris as Narrator

Edited by Lowri Ann Davies and Nico Vettese

Music by Nico Vettese and Sam Jones

Mastering by Catherine Rinella

Art by April Sumner

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This month we are featuring an episode of one of many exciting podcasts on the RQ Network: The Program audio series. 

The Program audio series is a dark science fiction anthology set in a future in which Money, State, and God have become fused into a single entity. The show focuses on ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world. And for them, it is not this future that is terrifying – it is our present.

In this episode called “All unsaved progress will be lost” a beloved System Administrator suddenly disappears, leaving Sam a poor stonemason to embark on a lifelong quest to preserve her memory.

You can find the episode transcript at programaudioseries.com/32-all-unsaved-progress-will-be-lost/ including credits and a list of references.

The Program audio series is created and produced by IMS. Introduction and outro by Helen Gould

You can listen to The Program audio series on the Rusty Quill website, on Acast, on its official website, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Content warnings

Permanent Bodily Harm

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This week’s short horror story, Clunk, inspired by the prompt "Deep Space", is written by Nairis Santini and read by Shahan Hamza

The author would like to dedicate it to Serafino, "who read my stories when I was little and inspired me to continue writing."

Content Notes:

- Family arguements

- Thalassophobia

- Loss of Time

- Loss of Space

Directed and Produced by April Sumner

Written by Nairis Santini

Executive Producers Alexander J Newall & April Sumner

Featuring

Shahan Hamza as Narrator

Edited by Lowri Ann Davies and Nico Vettese

Music by Nico Vettese and Sam Jones

Mastering by Catherine Rinella

Art by April Sumner

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Thank you for your support over the last ten years of Magnus!

The Magnus Protocol returns 16th July, with Kickstarter backers and paid members at the Knights and Nobles tiers getting 48-hour ad-free early access on 14th July.

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We are featuring a feed drop from a brilliant show on the RQ Network: Planet Arcana. Created by the talented J Strautman and B Marsollier. 

Planet Arcana is a science fantasy audio fiction, presented by two game runners, and built through a D&D 5e framework. The show will appeal to fans of actual play and audio drama alike. 

The world of Planet Arcana is rife with mystery, intrigue, crime and no answer is ever straightforward. What really happened at the Riskotheque casino? Who’s been stealing Android organs? And why? 

4000 years after a calamity known as the Big Oops, the world of Planet Arcana is a place of humans and androids, neon metropolises, sunken cities, phenomenal parties, paranormal oddities, and a pantheon of Major Arcana. 

An influencer, a drug dealer, and a cowboy walk into a casino, then into a vast mystery of science, magic, and Tarot-inspired gods. Three Fools on a simple quest to find a key, and open a box. 

Introduction and outro by Lowri Ann Davies. Listen to Planet Arcana on The Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or wherever you get your podcasts, or learn more about Planet Arcana on its official website.  

For ad-free and early access episodes and exclusive bonus content you can join their Patreon at Patreon.com/planetarcana 

Credits: 

Co-Creators & DMs J Strautman and B Marsollier 

Performed By J Strautman, B Marsollier, Peter Marsollier, Shaun Oldfield, and Skye Wallace 

Editing, original music, and sound design by J Strautman 

Sound effects from Nikko Hunt's Cinematic Sound Pack [https://nikkohunt.gumroad.com/l/dpclP] used, under CC by 4.0 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode]. Pitch modified lower from the original 

Content warnings: swearing, violence, drug use. 

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This month we are featuring a feed drop for an incredible podcast on the RQ Network: Not Quite Dead.

Not Quite Dead is a UK-based Gory, Horror, Romance, podcast from the award-winning team behind Spirit Box Radio, Remnants and Clockwork Bird.

Follow Alfie, a nurse working overtime when a patient arrives with her throat torn out. This is just the beginning of a terrifying night as Alfie finds himself caught in a battle between the living and the undead.

Saved by a mysterious stranger named Casper, they find themselves inescapably bound together. Neither of them are happy about it, but the draw of each other’s blood is irresistible.

Introduction and outro by Anusia Battersby. Listen to Not Quite Dead on the Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. To learn more about Not Quite Dead, check out their official website.

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Credits: Written, performed and edited by Eira Major.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-1/

Content Warnings:

Please bear in mind that this show is a work of horror fiction and frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. This episode contains:

– mild profanity

– references to sex

– discussion of the process of dying

– medicalised descriptions of death processes and dead people

– death, including violent death

– references to medical procedures

– hospital settings

– mentions of blood

– mentions of infidelity

– descriptions of blood

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